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Outline & Thesis I. Introduction A. Growing “The Rocking Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence and “The Destructors” by Graham Greene are two thought-provoking short stories that include a lot of truths in it. B. The seeds of materialism are sown and nurtured in lives of the characters. C. Materialism grows into the desired conclusions by…

For the purposes of comparison the two texts being discussed are Graham Greene’s “The Destroyers” and Mildred D. Taylor’s “The Gold Cadillac”. Both texts are set in the 1950’s but on different sides of the Atlantic: ‘The Destroyers’ in east end London and ‘The Gold Cadillac’ in Ohio, USA. The settings are as appropriate to…

The Schopenhauer Cure (2006), authored by Irvin Yalom, is a novel detailing the journey of a prominent psychotherapist, Julius Hertzfeld, after he discovers that he is slowly dying from a terminal illness. Faced with his own mortality, Julius begins to examine his life through his effectiveness as a therapist and his failures both in his…

Irony of The Cask of Amontillado Many of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories contain a wide variety of irony, motifs, and symbolism. The unity of these elements within many of his tales creates specific moods in and throughout his works. One story in particular, The Cask of Amontillado not only displays Poe’s exquisite attention to…

The play “Mater Harold…and his boys” is written by Athol Fugard in 1982. The story happened in the period of apartheid in 1940’s South Africa. Under apartheid, non-white South Africans were forced to live in separate areas from whites. They were not allowed to use same public facilities as whites, and contact between the two…

Oedipus the King: Fate vs. Free Will Most religions teach humans that their choices matter, but also that there is a greater force that will determine the course of events and final outcomes of our lives. The debate on whether our lives are based on fate or free will has been long standing with several…

Throughout this drama we follow along with a group of people from Roman times. Its the apogee of a clump of events go oning on merely one street with three houses shown. the play’s primary aim is that of a comedy. therefore to state the narrative with true mirth. Many of the characters in this…

            Tayama Katai’s “The Quilt” is regarded “as the prototypical shishosetsu” (Fowler xvi) and is often discussed as the first marker for the emergence of the genre which influenced almost every other writer/genre of the period. Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit in her book “Rituals of Self-Revelation: shishosetsu as a literary genre and socio cultural phenomenon” says “…

Shirley Jackson uses symbolism in “The Lottery” to show the importance of remaining faithful to tradition and the unknown consequences that seem to occur when citizens lose touch with their village’s rituals. The idea of a yearly lottery in this small village is a very important ritual that has been passed down for such a…

On a clear morning, June 27th, the townspeople, men, women, and children begin to assemble for the lottery which Is to begin at ten In the morning. The opening paragraphs completely mask the underlying darkness of this short story. As the reader progresses throughout the story, these deeper elements of the story become evident. “The…